Serious Charge: The magistrates for the City of Bristol were engaged for several hours on Saturday se’nnight in the further hearing of a case which had previously undergone two- or three-day’s preliminary inquiry, and which involved a very serious accusation against a respectable merchant of the city, whose warehouses are at New King Street, Mr. John Gilbert, jun. The precise nature of the charge is for having in his possession, under circumstances of a suspicious nature, some casks which had been stolen from Messrs. Worthington, the extensive brewers of Burton on Trent, and Messrs. Grey and Co., also brewers carrying on a large business at Bath. … Mr. Tierapath said an indictment could be preferred at the sessions, if the parties pleased, or another case might be preceded with now. Mr. Ayre said, he should go on with another case, one which he conceived to be stronger and clearer than the last, but as some of the witnesses were in Wales, he should not be able to complete it. The case referred to by Mr. Ayre, is one in which Mr. Pinsent, of Bath, is the complainant, and we believe is similar in its main features to the one just disposed of.
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GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874 (?)